Linus Nicolaj Carlsen

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In my Ph.D. project I look into the connections between the formation of clinical diagnoses and cultural imaginings concerning neurodiversity. Paying particular attention to American science-fiction works of the 1960s, I argue for the importance of fictions in articulating and maintaining neurodiverse diagnoses such as autism, especially regarding ideas of technology, affect, and time/space. The analysis of the historical situatedness of a diagnosis will, I belive, provide us with a clearer notion of how the cultural imaginary is both informing and maintaining a certain diagnostic imaginarium.